Character Quote by Sriram Raghavan

The characters that I want to play are interesting women. I don't care if they're good women or bad women or vulnerable women or…

— Gwendoline Christie

So many women characters are extensions of male fantasy.

— Viola Davis

I really do love male characters, in some ways, for the fact that they get surprised when they're vulnerable. Women are more surprised by…

— Courtney A. Kemp

Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.

— Iain Banks

I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

— Katee Sackhoff

I guess the characters I play may be at the more destructive edge of the spectrum, more damaged or whatever, but I find a…

— Lili Taylor

I loved playing a character that women fancied.

— Ray Fearon

What I'm mainly interested in is not having women characters that have to be perfect, obviously. That's something I feel strongly about and have…

— Callie Khouri

I feel happy to play strong women because, as an audience member, I feel such characters inspire women when they are down.

— Aishwarya Lekshmi

I tend to play strong characters and people just assume that I would want to play romantic comedies, which I would love to do,…

— Carrie-Anne Moss

I want to play characters that people relate to, characters that make different kinds of women in society feel represented.

— Danielle Macdonald

Even in stories that I like, with a female character that I love deeply, it always feels like there's something that she has to…

— Noelle Stevenson